Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 04:59:02AM +0000, Alexander Kellett was heard to say: > > Then create a bootdisk with grub 5.93.1 (IIRC) by > > dd if=image of=/dev/fd0 count=512 > > > > Then boot from this disk and type: roughly... > > root (fd0) > > install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 p /grub/menu.lst > > root (hd0) > > chainloader +1 > > boot > > This is correct (I couldn't remember the exact command, which is part of why > I wimped out and said "Read The Manual"), but you don't need to create the > disk > to do this; recent grubs can be run from the UNIX shell in command-line mode > to do this (although you don't need to issue the last three commands to boot > since you already have, you want to say root=(device holding grub stuff), etc)
I found this to be buggy on my machine, altough it was a while ago. Maybe it has improved. I think there are some problems with drive detection, have they been fixed now? Alex > > Daniel > > -- > We are Debian of Borg. You will be packaged. Resistance is futile. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- /-===============================-o-=========================-\ | Alexander Kellett __ | "You're not drunk if you | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __( o)> | can lie on the floor | | "Hmmmmm....Beer" \ <_. ) | without holding on." | | - Homer Simpson `---' | - Dean Martin | \-===============================-o-=========================-/